Posts by HomerJau

NUC11’s (Tiger Lake) do not this have this Alder Lake issue. (See thread title)

Set your services cache to ‘recommended’ settings, switch to nfs (from smb). I’ve had no NUC11 audio dropouts here with nfs.

Good idea to include the backup on the usb stick.

When we did the roll out most of the builds were done in the US (I’m in AU). I built an image that was burnt to the NVME drives with Rufus there. I could do the same, include the backup and try and workout his to get the autostart.sh to restore. I haven’t looked at how LE does that.

Thanks.

It’s for non technical users. Asking them to install a program and how to use it is an added complication.

We built a customised Kodi specifically for a spatial/surround music forum I’ve been involved with for over 10 years now. I offered to provide members with a pre-built/configured media player (second hand Intel NUC with LE) thinking there may be a dozen or so interested. We ended up building over 80 NUCs. All sold at cost. $140 USD with new 500GB NVME SSD and Bluetooth remote.

Most these users don’t know anything about PCs, networks, Linux or Kodi. They have been using disc players, some still have 70s quad LPs and multitrack reel to reel tape players. Others have 90s DVD-Audio players. I’ve been sharing how they can convert all their discs to files to play.

There’s now a huge number of albums being releases in Atmos. That’s another challenge for users. (I’m adding Matroska tagging support to Kodi 22 now). Kodi music needs tags. The QQKodi custom code will eventually get into Kodi mainline I hope too.

Its been rewarding to hear about our member’s successes with their NUCs and their love for LibreElec/Kodi. It’s a true game changer to move from discs to a centralised file based system as we all know.

Everyone involved with LE and Kodi should be very proud of what’s been they’ve achieved over these years. I know I couldn’t live without it! I take the opportunity to than you all!

Thanks.

I have not changed the settings add-on. My build uses LE's current 12.2 branch.

I have found a workaround by using scp from the command line for Win 11 users:

scp -P 22 QQKodiRestore.tar root@libreelec:/storage/backup/QQKodiRestore.tar

Once the backup is restored in LE, all the settings are good (of course).

New install from USB. Immediately SSH in and there is a samba.conf in .cache/services with SMB password authentication disabled:

SAMBA_WORKGROUP=WORKGROUP
SAMBA_SECURE=false
SAMBA_AUTOSHARE=true
SAMBA_MINPROTOCOL=SMB2
SAMBA_MAXPROTOCOL=SMB3
SAMBA_USERNAME=\l\i\b\r\e\e\l\e\c
SAMBA_PASSWORD=\l\i\b\r\e\e\l\e\c

It’s a LE 12.2 build from current 12.2 branch. Only changes: updated Python 3.11 latest 3.11 point release, Kodi package and a label change to identify the Kodi build. Nothing that affects LE settings.

I will check and confirm .cache/services contents when I get on my dev PC and do a fresh NUC install (early morning here)

Thank you!!

I'll take a look at that now and do so for my build

The samba_secure setting is enabled by default in the LE Settings add-on.

But its not enabled after an install...

Help needed please:

I’d like to build LibreELEC with preconfigured settings to allow users to access their device via SMB. They could then immediately copy a backup file and restore LE/Kodi completely configured with required add-ons, skin configuration, custom menu nodes etc.

Currently LE does not have SMB password authentication enabled on initial install and recent Windows 11 refuse to connect.

Is that possible? If so, how?

If I could do this, a user would just have set their network access and setup library Sources. Far simpler for non technical users and first time LE users.

Thanks

Garry

Your NUC will give you best performance in terms of UI navigation, scanning files into Kodi libraries, applying LE updates etc.

For me, the only reason you'd consider another box is for Dolby Vision support (you'll need a TV that supports DoVi too although some players will support tone mapping or on the fly conversion of DoVi to HDR10+ using CoreElec, sister of LE).

HDR vs Dovi is not a significant 'upgrade' IMO, but players that support DoVi FEL (more video data) can look better. FEL is on 4K UHD releases only. And not all Dovi UHD releases have FEL. So unless you want to chase technical nirvana, on a subset of releases only, its not critical at all IMO.

Having said that I do have 2 x Ugoos AM6B players, but I only use those for Movies. I mostly use Kodi for music and I use my NUCs for music (nearly 2500 albums & concerts). Scanning those is so much slower using non-NUCs. Many time slower!!

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It works great with the right HDMI port!

OMG - what a waste of research and testing time !!! Even in the manual there is no (fu.....) info that there is any difference in the two ports...

Thanks a lot!

I know of about 6 NUC11 users that never got their NUCs working until I mentioned this. I was one it the early days that just put my new NUC11 aside waiting for a LE fix until I stumbled on someone had ‘fixed’ it by simply using HDMI 1.

The reason I use NUCs is speed!

I have a couple of AMlogic players (Ugoos AM6B for Dovi FEL) but scanning my large Music library takes about 20 times longer than using a NUC with an NVME SSD (my recent NUCs have 2.5GBE Ethernet too and by network is 10GBE so that helps of course.

I do some Kodi customisation so testing needs rebuilds and rescans.

I’m using same NUC with same AVR (actually my NUC is 11TNKi3). No issues on that AVR or another Denon in another room.

The trick is to use the right hand HDMI port (looking from the back). Use ALSA in the HDMI settings.

This works with LE 12, 12.2 and 13 alpha

So you should change your thread title to “I have 2 questions” ha ha.

Sorry, but every thread here is a question. Why not give more info in your thread title, you might get a faster answer.

Rebooting this thread:

I can confirm the Simplecom USB to 2.5GBE Ethernet Adapter NU405C works 'out the box' on my test Intel NUC (LibreElec 12.2). Under $25 AUD (around 16USD maybe?)

I can copy a 10GB MKV file to my NUC at 270MB/s over my 2.5GBE network using the adapter above. USB 3.0 (5Gbps port)

I actually bought this for a CoreElec device that is sloowww (limited by its to 1GBE port). To be frank the eMMC drive is no more that 400MB/s compared to my NUCs 5000MB/s NVME SSD (NUC12).

I read saw your Intel comments chewitt regarding bandwidth on 8 ch 192kHz Intel devices.

If this audio issue is limited to 4K + 8ch 192kHz devices is possible to solve by reducing audio sample rate since 4K audio never has more the 48KHz?

I’ve seen both 96kHz and 192kHz on HD blu-ray (music BD) but never on UHD 4K. Streaming is always 48kHz.

The Dolby Atmos TrueHD encoder is limited to 48Hz. Maybe Kodi could just open a 48 or 96KHz connection?

There are already audio mods in Kodi to solve issues like quad audio only playing in stereo and re-routing back channels to side channels for 5.1 audio in a 7.1 system.

Maybe something to pursue if Intel don’t do a kernel fix?

Thanks for taking the time to give a full answer.

I’ve been using your 10 bit script since it was posted. Thought I’d missed a kernel fix

sky42 Does that mean all Alder Lake NUCs with kernel 6.12.16 (LE 12.2.1) are no longer affected by the 4K 23.976Hz bug? Or just N150 based?

THX

I have a related question:

I'm building LE 12.2 with a modified Kodi on a new PC.

Using the PROJECT=Generic ARCH=x86_64 tools/download-tool option

I'm getting errors for 3 files the download-tool option cannot download (sites are down). Example:

--2025-12-29 17:08:44-- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/…rub-2.12.tar.gz
Resolving git.savannah.gnu.org (git.savannah.gnu.org)... 209.51.188.168, 2001:470:142::168
Connecting to git.savannah.gnu.org (git.savannah.gnu.org)|209.51.188.168|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Connecting to git.savannah.gnu.org (git.savannah.gnu.org)|2001:470:142::168|:80... failed: Network is unreachable.
--2025-12-29 17:09:16-- http://sources.libreelec.tv/mirror/grub/grub-2.12.tar.gz
Resolving sources.libreelec.tv (sources.libreelec.tv)... 65.109.172.87
Connecting to sources.libreelec.tv (sources.libreelec.tv)|65.109.172.87|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2025-12-29 17:09:16 ERROR 404: Not Found.

This repeats trying until it eventually gives up and moves to next download

I can find that file (grub-2.12.tar.gz) and others needed on the web. I thought if I copied them to my local LE build 'sources' folder the build would work, but the build process actually ignores the existing file and attempts to d/l anyway. I noticed a 'Zone.Identifier' file and created one but still the build process wants to download.

Question:

How can I just copy those missing files and stop the build process from attempting a d/l?

(I guess I can wait a few days for the servers to go back on line...)

THX

Garry